183 
Curina. Hongkong. Champion 197, 438; A ide (1861) ; 
Hinds 1847; Wright 268, 268a, 269; Wilford 353; Beechy in 
herb. Univ. Glasgow; Weiss, Hance i in herb. se Paris. 
The ee terminate leafy axillary shoots as in /. 
Nua-vomica. The corolla is long and cylindric but, owing 
to splitting, the lhe are equal in length to the tube. The 
fruits are 3-5-4 cm. in diameter, like a small ees and of 
pulp with a thin, smooth, crustaceous pericarp. One or two 
seeds are bornesin the fruit and they resemble those of 8. Mes 
vomica in being circular and flattened with a sharpened edb 
They measure ‘from 1-1-13 cm. in diameter and are covered 
with a dense felt of short hairs. It is not recorded whether 
the seeds contain any appreciable haga of strychnine or 
other alkaloids. 
Mr. Tutcher, Superintendent of the Botanical and Forestry 
oe ongkong, informs us that S. angu ustiflora is 
known by some of the Chinese as the ‘Ma tsien tsze’ plant; 
this being the Chinese name for Vus-x:0mica. 
63. $. Nux-vomica, Linn. Spec. 271; G. Don, Dict. iv. p. 65; 
Clarke in Hook. f. Flor. Brit. Ind. iv. p. 90—syn. Kurz, For. 
Flor. ii. p. 166, S. lucida, Wall. Cat. 1590 et loc. Ten- 
asserim excl.; Bedd. Fl. Sylv. ii. t. 243 et Brandis, Indian 
Trees, p. 473, spec. Burm. excl.; Trimen, FI. Ceylon, pt. il. p. 
175; Dalz. & Gibs. Bombay Flora, p. 155; Benth. in Proc. Linn. 
Soc. i. p. 103, spec. ex Moluccis excl. ; Mig. Flor. Ned. Ind. ii. 
Details of ghee? 2 S. Nuwx-vomica for comparison with 
hose of 8S. Nu«-blanda. 
